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Microsoft Tops the List of Best-Managed Companies of 2023

Journal Reports: LeadershipWhat’s New in the Best Managed Companies Rankings in 2023By Rick Wartzman , and Kelly TangDecember 13, 2023 at 1:02 PM ETThe main difference: a new metric that measures how well companies foster career mobility. Journal Reports: LeadershipWhat’s New in the Best Managed Companies Rankings in 2023By Rick Wartzman , and Kelly TangDecember 13, 2023 at 1:02 PM ETThe main difference: a new metric that measures how well companies foster career mobility. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original

The App Store Economy Is Under Siege

Monday’s court ruling that Google created an antitrust market with its app store threatens to upend the $500-billion-a-year app store economy, which has evolved into a profit machine for Appleand Google that helped define the smartphone era.A jury unanimously sided with Epic Games, saying that Google had harmed the videogame maker by maintaining an illegal monopoly. Google said it plans to appeal the verdict and stands by its business model. In a separate case that concluded in 2021, a federal judge largely ruled against

Google Loses Antitrust Case Brought By Epic Games

A jury in San Francisco found Monday that Google had created an antitrust market with its app store.Videogame maker Epic Games sued Google in 2020, accusing the search giant of using its dominant position to squeeze excess profits from app developers.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 A jury in San Francisco found Monday that Google had created an antitrust market with its app store.Videogame maker Epic Games sued Google in 2020, accusing the search giant

Why Taylor Swift Isn’t on Google’s 2023 Year In Search

Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. You wouldn’t know it from the latest edition of Google’s annual annual “Year In Search” roundup, though. Every December, the company publishes a list of the year’s most popular search terms. But one name is conspicuously absent from the 2023 edition.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedThe queen of pop isn’t on any of Google’s 2023 trending search categories, despite the fact that Time…

Google Announces AI System Gemini After Turmoil at Rival OpenAI

Google said it developed a new artificial-intelligence system more powerful than any currently on the market, including technology developed by ChatGPT creator OpenAI.The Alphabet unit said the algorithm wouldn’t be widely available until early next year, citing a need for more extensive safety testing despite spending most of this year on the project. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Google said it developed a new artificial-intelligence system more

You Can Look Better on Video Calls Without Even Trying

Cold and flu season is in full swing. And so is the year-end work rush.This past week, I didn’t want to bring my runny nose to the office. But I still felt pressure to show up to video calls—with my camera on.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Cold and flu season is in full swing. And so is the year-end work rush.This past week, I didn’t want to bring my runny nose to the office. But I still felt pressure to show up to video calls—with my camera

Your Unused Gmail Account May Be Permanently Deleted Friday

Google will start to sweep away cobweb-collecting Gmail accounts this week. If you have an email address you haven’t touched in a couple of years, it might soon be gone.The tech giant on Friday will start deleting personal Google accounts that have remained inactive for at least two years—and going forward, it will continue killing accounts that reach two years of disuse. Once deleted, the accounts and any items in them can’t be recovered. This could mean the end of personal emails, cherished documents and candid photos…

Tech’s New Normal: Microcuts Over Growth at All Costs

The tech industry has largely recovered from the downturn, but Silicon Valley learned a long-lasting lesson: how to do more with less. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta Platforms have been cutting dozens or a few hundred employees at a time as executives keep tight controls on costs, even as their businesses and stock prices have rebounded sharply. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 The tech industry has largely recovered from the downturn, but Silicon

Overwhelmed by Email? How AI Tools Can Get You to Inbox Zero

NO MATTER HOW much time we spend unclogging our email inboxes on any given day, more calendar invites, premeeting memos and “urgent” tech updates will pile up tomorrow. Given the scale of the problem, it might feel like a personal email butler is necessary.Enter artificial intelligence. Companies like Shortwave, launched by ex-Googlers, or Sanebox, a $3.49-a-month utility, offer third-party extensions that can triage your unread messages. Major email platforms are increasingly developing similar tools. When drafting a…

Amazon Launches Free AI Classes in Bid to Win Talent Arms Race

Amazon.com is launching a program to train millions of workers in artificial-intelligence skills as the tech giant seeks to gain an edge in a pitched battle for talent with Microsoft, Google and other companies.Named “AI Ready,” Amazon’s new program plans to train at least two million people by 2025 on basic to advanced AI skills, including how to make use of the generative AI technology that has powered language-based models such as ChatGPT. Amazon aims to fill a gap in AI talent as it has sought to generate interest in